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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
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        <div class="chapter ch16" data-usfm="JHN.16">
            <div class="label">16</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;All this I have told you so that you will not fall away.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, &#8216;Where are you going?&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment:</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">about sin, because people do not believe in me;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Disciples&#8217; Grief Will Turn to Joy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.16.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Jesus went on to say, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.16.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">At this, some of his disciples said to one another, &#8220;What does he mean by saying, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me,&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> and </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Because I am going to the Father&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They kept asking, &#8220;What does he mean by </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;a little while&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">? We don&#8217;t understand what he is saying.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.16.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, &#8216;In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me&#8217;?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.16.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.16.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.16.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.16.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.16.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.16.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.16.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.16.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.16.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then Jesus&#8217; disciples said, &#8220;Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.16.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.16.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.16.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you now believe?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus replied. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.16.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.16.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.16.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkDEU">
        <div class="chapter ch20" data-usfm="DEU.20">
            <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Going to War</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He shall say: &#8220;Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.20.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The officers shall say to the army: &#8220;Has anyone built a new house and not yet begun to live in it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else may begin to live in it. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Has anyone planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else enjoy it. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Has anyone become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else marry her.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the officers shall add, &#8220;Is anyone afraid or fainthearted? Let him go home so that his fellow soldiers will not become disheartened too.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When the officers have finished speaking to the army, they shall appoint commanders over it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.20.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God gives you from your enemies. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">However, in the cities of the nations the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Completely destroy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:17 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them.</span></span></span><span class="content"> them&#8212;the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites&#8212;as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has commanded you. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.20.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">down to use in the siege, for the fruit trees are for the benefit of people.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1CO">
        <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="1CO.1">
            <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ&#8212;their Lord and ours:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Thanksgiving</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For in him you have been enriched in every way&#8212;with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">God thus confirming our testimony about Christ among you. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Church Divided Over Leaders</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I appeal to you, brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in verses 11 and 26; and in 2:1; 3:1; 4:6; 6:8; 7:24, 29; 10:1; 11:33; 12:1; 14:6, 20, 26, 39; 15:1, 6, 50, 58; 16:15, 20.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My brothers and sisters, some from Chloe&#8217;s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">What I mean is this: One of you says, &#8220;I follow Paul&#8221;; another, &#8220;I follow Apollos&#8221;; another, &#8220;I follow Cephas</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">That is, Peter</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;; still another, &#8220;I follow Christ.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul? </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">so no one can say that you were baptized in my name. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">(Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don&#8217;t remember if I baptized anyone else.) </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel&#8212;not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Christ Crucified Is God&#8217;s Power and Wisdom</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.1.19"><span class="content">&#8220;I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.1.19"><span class="content">the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:19 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 29:14</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CO.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CO.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CO.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1CO.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1CO.1.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1CO.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1CO.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1CO.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things&#8212;and the things that are not&#8212;to nullify the things that are, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1CO.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">so that no one may boast before him. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1CO.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God&#8212;that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1CO.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Therefore, as it is written: &#8220;Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:31 </span><span class="ft">Jer. 9:24</span></span></span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JUD.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JUD.1.1"><span class="content">To those who have been called, who are loved in God the Father and kept for</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">by</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content"> Jesus Christ:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JUD.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JUD.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Sin and Doom of Ungodly People</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JUD.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JUD.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God&#8217;s holy people. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JUD.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">individuals who were marked out for condemnation</span></span></span><span class="content"> long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JUD.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JUD.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Jesus</span></span></span><span class="content"> at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JUD.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling&#8212;these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JUD.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JUD.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JUD.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JUD.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, &#8220;The Lord rebuke you!&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:9 </span><span class="ft">Jude is alluding to the Jewish Testament of Moses (approximately the first century <span class="sc">a.d.</span>).</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JUD.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct&#8212;as irrational animals do&#8212;will destroy them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JUD.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JUD.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam&#8217;s error; they have been destroyed in Korah&#8217;s rebellion.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JUD.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JUD.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm&#8212;shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted&#8212;twice dead. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JUD.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JUD.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JUD.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: &#8220;See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JUD.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:15 </span><span class="ft">From the Jewish First Book of Enoch (approximately the first century <span class="sc">b.c.</span>)</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JUD.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Call to Persevere</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JUD.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JUD.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JUD.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They said to you, &#8220;In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JUD.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JUD.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JUD.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JUD.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">keep yourselves in God&#8217;s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JUD.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JUD.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Be merciful to those who doubt; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JUD.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear&#8212;hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:23 </span><span class="ft">The Greek manuscripts of these verses vary at several points.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Doxology</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JUD.1.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JUD.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JUD.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Wisdom</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A good name is better than fine perfume,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.7.1"><span class="content">and the day of death better than the day of birth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">It is better to go to a house of mourning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.7.2"><span class="content">than to go to a house of feasting,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.7.2"><span class="content">for death is the destiny of everyone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.7.2"><span class="content">the living should take this to heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Frustration is better than laughter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.7.3"><span class="content">because a sad face is good for the heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.7.4"><span class="content">but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It is better to heed the rebuke of a wise person</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.7.5"><span class="content">than to listen to the song of fools.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Like the crackling of thorns under the pot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.7.6"><span class="content">so is the laughter of fools.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.7.6"><span class="content">This too is meaningless.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Extortion turns a wise person into a fool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.7.7"><span class="content">and a bribe corrupts the heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The end of a matter is better than its beginning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.7.8"><span class="content">and patience is better than pride.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.7.9"><span class="content">for anger resides in the lap of fools.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do not say, &#8220;Why were the old days better than these?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.7.10"><span class="content">For it is not wise to ask such questions.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.7.11"><span class="content">and benefits those who see the sun.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Wisdom is a shelter</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.7.12"><span class="content">as money is a shelter,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.7.12"><span class="content">but the advantage of knowledge is this:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.7.12"><span class="content">Wisdom preserves those who have it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ECC.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Consider what God has done:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ECC.7.13"><span class="content">Who can straighten</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ECC.7.13"><span class="content">what he has made crooked?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ECC.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When times are good, be happy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.7.14"><span class="content">but when times are bad, consider this:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.7.14"><span class="content">God has made the one</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.7.14"><span class="content">as well as the other.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.7.14"><span class="content">Therefore, no one can discover</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.7.14"><span class="content">anything about their future.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ECC.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ECC.7.15"><span class="content">the righteous perishing in their righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ECC.7.15"><span class="content">and the wicked living long in their wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ECC.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ECC.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Do not be overrighteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ECC.7.16"><span class="content">neither be overwise&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ECC.7.16"><span class="content">why destroy yourself?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ECC.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Do not be overwicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.7.17"><span class="content">and do not be a fool&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.7.17"><span class="content">why die before your time?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ECC.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">It is good to grasp the one</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ECC.7.18"><span class="content">and not let go of the other.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ECC.7.18"><span class="content">Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will follow them both</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ECC.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ECC.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Wisdom makes one wise person more powerful</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ECC.7.19"><span class="content">than ten rulers in a city.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ECC.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ECC.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ECC.7.20"><span class="content">no one who does what is right and never sins.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ECC.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ECC.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do not pay attention to every word people say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ECC.7.21"><span class="content">or you may hear your servant cursing you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ECC.7.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ECC.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">for you know in your heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ECC.7.22"><span class="content">that many times you yourself have cursed others.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ECC.7.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ECC.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">All this I tested by wisdom and I said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ECC.7.23"><span class="content">&#8220;I am determined to be wise&#8221;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ECC.7.23"><span class="content">but this was beyond me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ECC.7.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ECC.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Whatever exists is far off and most profound&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ECC.7.24"><span class="content">who can discover it?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ECC.7.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ECC.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">So I turned my mind to understand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ECC.7.25"><span class="content">to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ECC.7.25"><span class="content">and to understand the stupidity of wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ECC.7.25"><span class="content">and the madness of folly.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ECC.7.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ECC.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I find more bitter than death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ECC.7.26"><span class="content">the woman who is a snare,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ECC.7.26"><span class="content">whose heart is a trap</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ECC.7.26"><span class="content">and whose hands are chains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ECC.7.26"><span class="content">The man who pleases God will escape her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ECC.7.26"><span class="content">but the sinner she will ensnare.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ECC.7.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ECC.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look,&#8221; says the Teacher,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:27 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the leader of the assembly</span></span></span><span class="content"> &#8220;this is what I have discovered:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ECC.7.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ECC.7.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ECC.7.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">while I was still searching</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ECC.7.28"><span class="content">but not finding&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ECC.7.28"><span class="content">I found one upright man among a thousand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ECC.7.28"><span class="content">but not one upright woman among them all.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ECC.7.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ECC.7.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">This only have I found:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ECC.7.29"><span class="content">God created mankind upright,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ECC.7.29"><span class="content">but they have gone in search of many schemes.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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            <div class="label">23</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 23</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is my shepherd, I lack nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He makes me lie down in green pastures,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.23.2"><span class="content">he leads me beside quiet waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">he refreshes my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="content">He guides me along the right paths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="content">for his name&#8217;s sake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Even though I walk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">through the darkest valley,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the valley of the shadow of death</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">I will fear no evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">for you are with me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">your rod and your staff,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">they comfort me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You prepare a table before me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">in the presence of my enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">You anoint my head with oil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">my cup overflows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Surely your goodness and love will follow me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="content">all the days of my life,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="content">and I will dwell in the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="content">forever.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">18</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.18.1"><span class="content">and against all sound judgment starts quarrels.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.18.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Fools find no pleasure in understanding</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.18.2"><span class="content">but delight in airing their own opinions.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When wickedness comes, so does contempt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.18.3"><span class="content">and with shame comes reproach.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.18.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The words of the mouth are deep waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.18.4"><span class="content">but the fountain of wisdom is a rushing stream.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It is not good to be partial to the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.18.5"><span class="content">and so deprive the innocent of justice.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The lips of fools bring them strife,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.18.6"><span class="content">and their mouths invite a beating.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The mouths of fools are their undoing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.18.7"><span class="content">and their lips are a snare to their very lives.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.18.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The words of a gossip are like choice morsels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.18.8"><span class="content">they go down to the inmost parts.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">One who is slack in his work</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.18.9"><span class="content">is brother to one who destroys.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.18.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is a fortified tower;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.18.10"><span class="content">the righteous run to it and are safe.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.18.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The wealth of the rich is their fortified city;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.18.11"><span class="content">they imagine it a wall too high to scale.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.18.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Before a downfall the heart is haughty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.18.12"><span class="content">but humility comes before honor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.18.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">To answer before listening&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.18.13"><span class="content">that is folly and shame.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The human spirit can endure in sickness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.18.14"><span class="content">but a crushed spirit who can bear?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.18.15"><span class="content">for the ears of the wise seek it out.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.18.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">A gift opens the way</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.18.16"><span class="content">and ushers the giver into the presence of the great.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.18.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">In a lawsuit the first to speak seems right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.18.17"><span class="content">until someone comes forward and cross-examines.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.18.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Casting the lot settles disputes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.18.18"><span class="content">and keeps strong opponents apart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.18.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A brother wronged is more unyielding than a fortified city;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.18.19"><span class="content">disputes are like the barred gates of a citadel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.18.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">From the fruit of their mouth a person&#8217;s stomach is filled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.18.20"><span class="content">with the harvest of their lips they are satisfied.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.18.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The tongue has the power of life and death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.18.21"><span class="content">and those who love it will eat its fruit.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.18.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He who finds a wife finds what is good</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.18.22"><span class="content">and receives favor from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.18.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The poor plead for mercy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.18.23"><span class="content">but the rich answer harshly.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.18.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.18.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.18.24"><span class="content">but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch22" data-usfm="1CH.22">
            <div class="label">22</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then David said, &#8220;The house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God is to be here, and also the altar of burnt offering for Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Preparations for the Temple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CH.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So David gave orders to assemble the foreigners residing in Israel, and from among them he appointed stonecutters to prepare dressed stone for building the house of God. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CH.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He provided a large amount of iron to make nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, and more bronze than could be weighed. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CH.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He also provided more cedar logs than could be counted, for the Sidonians and Tyrians had brought large numbers of them to David.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CH.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CH.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">David said, &#8220;My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> should be of great magnificence and fame and splendor in the sight of all the nations. Therefore I will make preparations for it.&#8221; So David made extensive preparations before his death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CH.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CH.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then he called for his son Solomon and charged him to build a house for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CH.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">David said to Solomon: &#8220;My son, I had it in my heart to build a house for the Name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CH.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But this word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: &#8216;You have shed much blood and have fought many wars. You are not to build a house for my Name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CH.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But you will have a son who will be a man of peace and rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. His name will be Solomon,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:9 </span><span class="fq">Solomon </span><span class="ft">sounds like and may be derived from the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">peace</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and I will grant Israel peace and quiet during his reign. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He is the one who will build a house for my Name. He will be my son, and I will be his father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CH.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now, my son, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be with you, and may you have success and build the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, as he said you would. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CH.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> give you discretion and understanding when he puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CH.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then you will have success if you are careful to observe the decrees and laws that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CH.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CH.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> a hundred thousand talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:14 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3,750 tons or about 3,400 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold, a million talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:14 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 37,500 tons or about 34,000 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver, quantities of bronze and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CH.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You have many workers: stonecutters, masons and carpenters, as well as those skilled in every kind of work </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CH.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">in gold and silver, bronze and iron&#8212;craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CH.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CH.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then David ordered all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CH.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;Is not the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God with you? And has he not granted you rest on every side? For he has given the inhabitants of the land into my hands, and the land is subject to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and to his people. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CH.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Now devote your heart and soul to seeking the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. Begin to build the sanctuary of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and the sacred articles belonging to God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkDAN">
        <div class="chapter ch2" data-usfm="DAN.2">
            <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Nebuchadnezzar&#8217;s Dream</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DAN.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his mind was troubled and he could not sleep. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DAN.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So the king summoned the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers and astrologers</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 4, 5 and 10</span></span></span><span class="content"> to tell him what he had dreamed. When they came in and stood before the king, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">he said to them, &#8220;I have had a dream that troubles me and I want to know what it means.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">was</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the astrologers answered the king,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:4 </span><span class="ft">At this point the Hebrew text has </span><span class="fqa">in Aramaic</span><span class="ft">, indicating that the text from here through the end of chapter 7 is in Aramaic.</span></span></span><span class="content"> &#8220;May the king live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will interpret it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DAN.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The king replied to the astrologers, &#8220;This is what I have firmly decided: If you do not tell me what my dream was and interpret it, I will have you cut into pieces and your houses turned into piles of rubble. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But if you tell me the dream and explain it, you will receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. So tell me the dream and interpret it for me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Once more they replied, &#8220;Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will interpret it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DAN.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the king answered, &#8220;I am certain that you are trying to gain time, because you realize that this is what I have firmly decided: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If you do not tell me the dream, there is only one penalty for you. You have conspired to tell me misleading and wicked things, hoping the situation will change. So then, tell me the dream, and I will know that you can interpret it for me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The astrologers answered the king, &#8220;There is no one on earth who can do what the king asks! No king, however great and mighty, has ever asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or astrologer. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DAN.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">What the king asks is too difficult. No one can reveal it to the king except the gods, and they do not live among humans.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DAN.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">This made the king so angry and furious that he ordered the execution of all the wise men of Babylon. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DAN.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So the decree was issued to put the wise men to death, and men were sent to look for Daniel and his friends to put them to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DAN.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DAN.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When Arioch, the commander of the king&#8217;s guard, had gone out to put to death the wise men of Babylon, Daniel spoke to him with wisdom and tact. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DAN.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He asked the king&#8217;s officer, &#8220;Why did the king issue such a harsh decree?&#8221; Arioch then explained the matter to Daniel. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">At this, Daniel went in to the king and asked for time, so that he might interpret the dream for him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DAN.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Daniel returned to his house and explained the matter to his friends Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DAN.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He urged them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that he and his friends might not be executed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DAN.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">During the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Then Daniel praised the God of heaven </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.2.20"><span class="content">&#8220;Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.2.20"><span class="content">wisdom and power are his.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He changes times and seasons;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.2.21"><span class="content">he deposes kings and raises up others.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.2.21"><span class="content">He gives wisdom to the wise</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.2.21"><span class="content">and knowledge to the discerning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He reveals deep and hidden things;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.2.22"><span class="content">he knows what lies in darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.2.22"><span class="content">and light dwells with him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.2.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.2.23"><span class="content">You have given me wisdom and power,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.2.23"><span class="content">you have made known to me what we asked of you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.2.23"><span class="content">you have made known to us the dream of the king.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Daniel Interprets the Dream</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.2.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DAN.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to execute the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, &#8220;Do not execute the wise men of Babylon. Take me to the king, and I will interpret his dream for him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DAN.2.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DAN.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Arioch took Daniel to the king at once and said, &#8220;I have found a man among the exiles from Judah who can tell the king what his dream means.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DAN.2.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DAN.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The king asked Daniel (also called Belteshazzar), &#8220;Are you able to tell me what I saw in my dream and interpret it?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DAN.2.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DAN.2.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Daniel replied, &#8220;No wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about, </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="DAN.2.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries. He has shown King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in days to come. Your dream and the visions that passed through your mind as you were lying in bed are these:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="DAN.2.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="DAN.2.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;As Your Majesty was lying there, your mind turned to things to come, and the revealer of mysteries showed you what is going to happen. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="DAN.2.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because I have greater wisdom than anyone else alive, but so that Your Majesty may know the interpretation and that you may understand what went through your mind.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="DAN.2.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="DAN.2.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue&#8212;an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="DAN.2.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="DAN.2.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="DAN.2.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="DAN.2.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="DAN.2.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="DAN.2.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;This was the dream, and now we will interpret it to the king. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="DAN.2.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Your Majesty, you are the king of kings. The God of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory; </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="DAN.2.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">in your hands he has placed all mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds in the sky. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="DAN.2.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="DAN.2.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">&#8220;After you, another kingdom will arise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="DAN.2.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron&#8212;for iron breaks and smashes everything&#8212;and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="DAN.2.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="DAN.2.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="DAN.2.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="DAN.2.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="DAN.2.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">&#8220;In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="DAN.2.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands&#8212;a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="DAN.2.45"><span class="content">&#8220;The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="DAN.2.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="DAN.2.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell prostrate before Daniel and paid him honor and ordered that an offering and incense be presented to him. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="DAN.2.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">The king said to Daniel, &#8220;Surely your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="DAN.2.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="DAN.2.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">Then the king placed Daniel in a high position and lavished many gifts on him. He made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and placed him in charge of all its wise men. </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="DAN.2.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">Moreover, at Daniel&#8217;s request the king appointed Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego administrators over the province of Babylon, while Daniel himself remained at the royal court.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkACT">
        <div class="chapter ch5" data-usfm="ACT.5">
            <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ananias and Sapphira</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">With his wife&#8217;s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles&#8217; feet.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then Peter said, &#8220;Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Didn&#8217;t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn&#8217;t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Peter asked her, &#8220;Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.5.8"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes,&#8221; she said, &#8220;that is the price.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Peter said to her, &#8220;How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Apostles Heal Many</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon&#8217;s Colonnade. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter&#8217;s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Apostles Persecuted</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go, stand in the temple courts,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and tell the people all about this new life.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">At daybreak they entered the temple courts, as they had been told, and began to teach the people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.5.21"><span class="content">When the high priest and his associates arrived, they called together the Sanhedrin&#8212;the full assembly of the elders of Israel&#8212;and sent to the jail for the apostles. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they went back and reported, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;We found the jail securely locked, with the guards standing at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">On hearing this report, the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests were at a loss, wondering what this might lead to.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.5.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then someone came and said, &#8220;Look! The men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">At that, the captain went with his officers and brought the apostles. They did not use force, because they feared that the people would stone them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.5.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The apostles were brought in and made to appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.5.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man&#8217;s blood.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.5.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.5.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Peter and the other apostles replied: &#8220;We must obey God rather than human beings! </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.5.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead&#8212;whom you killed by hanging him on a cross. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.5.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might bring Israel to repentance and forgive their sins. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.5.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.5.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.5.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to put them to death. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.5.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a little while. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.5.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Then he addressed the Sanhedrin: &#8220;Men of Israel, consider carefully what you intend to do to these men. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.5.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Some time ago Theudas appeared, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men rallied to him. He was killed, all his followers were dispersed, and it all came to nothing. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.5.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">After him, Judas the Galilean appeared in the days of the census and led a band of people in revolt. He too was killed, and all his followers were scattered. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.5.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.5.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.5.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.5.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">His speech persuaded them. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.5.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.5.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="ACT.5.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.</span></span></div>
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